Oakland's City Union backburners precarious workers at their own peril
Submitted by Otra Ala on Sep 14 2017 02:56
Half of Oakland's city union workers are precarious and can be fired at will. If SEIU wants to bargain for better wages for all, they need to start by getting their own house in order. Half a union is no union at all.
Outsourced SEIU union organizer wrongfully terminated for organizing at work
Submitted by Diane on Aug 25 2017 11:59
A young organizer has won more than $20,000 in back pay after being wrongfully terminated from her job with the Chicago affiliate of the Fight for $15 campaign, Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago (WOCC).
The Oakland police cannot be reformed
Submitted by Scott Jay on Jul 31 2016 02:39
The Oakland Police cannot be reformed partly because reformers are not even willing to fight for incremental change
Industrial Worker #1693 (March 2007)
The March 2007 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
33 country fast food strike - TEFL lesson
Submitted by Angry Language ... on May 27 2014 15:14
A lesson plan around the "Fight for 15 campaign" and a recent international one-day strike in support of US fast food workers fighting for better wages.
State intervention to save capitalism: the IWW and the state
Submitted by s.nappalos on Mar 26 2014 18:53
A discussion of the role of state intervention in the workers movement, an increasing approach of mobilizing movements to improve capitalism through state reform, and an appeal for the IWW to take an oppositional role to the state and such reform projects.
Can fast food organising breathe new life into a dying labour movement?
Submitted by John E Jacobsen on Dec 8 2013 22:26
A piece on the recent fast food campaigns launched by SEIU – their origins, means, and prospects for revitalizing the labor movement in the U.S.
Fight Forward: Why the Fast Food Strikes Are Important to Housing Justice
Submitted by Eviction Free Zone on Dec 5 2013 18:02
As the fast food strikes heat up, there are a lot of reasons housing justice activists should come out to support them.
Occupy City Council!: Minneapolis and sewer socialism
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Dec 5 2013 02:56
A mostly finished writing on Ty Moore, Socialist Alternative, Occupy and SEIU in Minneapolis. For the 'sewer socialism' reference in the title, see this Great Moments in Leftism strip.
Fast food unionism: the unionization of McDonald’s and the McDonaldization of unions
IWW organizer Erik Forman gives a broad background of the fast food industry, business union tactics, and draws out some directions that an autonomous movement of fast food workers could take to remedy the issues he identifies.
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